The Sun. — London, England, 1809-11-13 00:00:00

FI?ENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. PARIS, Nov. s.—The Saxon Arn,bassador set off this morning to meet the King, his master, who is expected to arrive at Fontainbleau to-morrow,: or the folloWing day. His Excellency MarShal the Duke of Ragusa sets off this clay to' put hicnself.at ibe head_ (4 his corps, which is to occupy Dalmatia and the Illyrian Pro- arinces. The Journal of Gard contains the following article uiom Nismes, dated-O&.•28 " The 'day before (yesterday, between ten and eleven otelock.at night, there was felt in this, place a concussion,. followed by a very loud and sharp re port. This . was heard twice, with an interval of about .half an hour between each report. The cause was at first thought to, be an earthquake; but as the sound proceeded from. the coast, (for it was almost a dead calm, and the little wind there was carne froln, the S. and S. W.). and as several French and - English s vessels had beef) seen upon the Coast, between Cette aid Aiguemortes, some persoins ascribed tills phenomenon to the explosion of a great quintity of gunpowder. • This conjecture is thiS day confirmed by inter. ;once, that two vessels which had gone ashore near Avesquieres, had been. set on fire and blown up at the time above-mentioned. It is remarkable, that the explosion should have been so distinetly heard at Nistnes, considering that it is ten leagues from the coast. We are in anxious ex petiation of, the particulars of this event." The five per cents. with dividend fr i om the 22d of September, are at 801. 30 c. The English . papers have . published a letter from Adjutant-General, Stewart to the , Commandant of" the 2iith 'regiment, in which, by command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, he presents that regiment with a stand of French colours, said to have been taken by it frhin the French in the battle of Talayera.—Upon thisletter - the Moniteur has the following note : " :Our troops have no celours ; t hey' have eagles only. The regiment from which the coldurs . Were taken is not named. The pretended spoil rm;,!e by the E9glish 19 the battle of '.k'alaVera 'is cOutraditted by the ailininistration . of the Park of Artillery, so far as regards the cannon, and with respect to the eagles, by the administration of the different corps. This, therefore, is nothing more than a falsehood invented to amuse the English people." . Cardinal Fesch continues with his Majesty at Fon taitibleau..' A Council of Ministers was held there on the Ist, at whichhiS'Maje'sty presided. We learn from aYienna newspaper, that the'Areh alike Charles continues to reside at Teschen with his uncle, Duke Albert, of Sase Teschen. A letter frorri Strasburgil of the2gth ult. says Sevefal snuatitons of the 13tH and 14th regiments of dragoons have arrived here. They are on their march for the interior of the empire. We have not hitherto seen any infantry cot ps of the French array Germany." • General Roy, who Organised the differeht legions tif: national guards'at Antwerp, has returned to this capital. ' The 'peace. recently concluded has been announced In all ,the principal cities on the Continent, amidst the sound ot4annoo, arul every - demonstration of generd rejoicing. At Vienna, MUnich, Sturgartti Frankfort,. Naples, Roine,',Fiorence; . Milan,. drid, Ac. as well as in Paris; illuminatiOns have taken- - prace; -Au hundred millions 'of - men have taken part in this general festivity, and celebrated it With marks of public satisfaction. • The English' alobe regard it With astonishment and consternation. They have recourse to calumnies against that Power which they have urged" nearly to dte brink of destruction ; aq the Ministerial papers induStriously pi upagate the notion that' the hands of Austria- are tied up ; that 'the peace is compulsory, and cannot be of long duration. It will last - too lottglor them: Driven out of Austria, as they have been driven frcim Italy, they will speCdily be ex-- pelted homSpiin as they have heen trorn - Austria.— How cart the insnrerefit.i, divided amongst them belvcs, and beaten by' a small part of the French army- at Talavera, wake head against the - whole of our toice . . VIE Nlti OCT. VOli . Übna, Atistrian Cotrimissionei in negOciating the Treaty of Peace, having received orders to •communicate , it ,to the piil,l;e,. has t: is illy caused it to. be placarded, and exposed to sale by the imperial. 0-ititer, to whose printing-office the pt , oplo are going in crowds.to pro cure copies of it. The wandiyark of -artillery is in motion, and from 100 to i4t) ejltaollS are sent off daily, which shewS that the -evaA uatiou of Vienna • will not be. long de layed. A_ great. number, of coael:es art also sent of daily, will) : the sick and wounded, who are cotiveyr. ed to St. Potto and thence to Lintz. . We hear that the misunderstiinding between the. Divan ,atid the Engli t sh Minister Adair has risen to tife,ii!ghest pitch ; and ttioukh he .still remains at onstikottrlople,. his departure for London is sup.. posed_ to be very near at band. • The Porte islsaid to be liiglily dissatisfied that the English Government should have presumed to, apply for the admission of English troops, olio the islands of the Archipelago, under the pretext of prote4ting them against the French .:hid .11.u%sians. The troops,of the Grand Duchy of Naisau began ;heir warco on.the 22d for Spain. The bloWiny, up of the u►rtitications did some da , age to. St, Stephen's Tower. The immense magazines of hay and straw formed k the fosse of this city, are now selling to the,high est 6idOer. • , . Some infasures are in Contemplation for re§toring the credit of our Bank notes. The rumour of the plague haying broken out at Smyrna appears to have been circulated by persons interested in raising the price of cotton wool. The Eagtish and Sicilian rnerchandize and turtnu fa&ures confiscated at Trieste,amotint to 6,000,000 of livres.a In consequence of the ninnber of ;Eug lisli frigates and privateers cruizing•betore•that -port, thi4 property will be conveyed by l,u to the hitter -place. 'T here are several pickages of these commo dities which belong to the Augsburgh merchants. The intelligence of th,- conclusion of peace was vceived with every demonstration -of joy at Raab, aad in the .counties of Hungary .most contiguous to Ili They sent Deputies to the Emperor of Al.s triA, to thank him .for this blessing. ROTTERDAM, N0v.'9. 7 --The following is an Ex trad of a Letter from - Alarshal - Dumonceau to his 'Majeaty, dated the Ist inst. from his Head -quarters at woes .• . " SittE, - ;—T have the honour of still boring en abled to tratistnit 'to y6ur Majesty the most satisfac tory inteilikt:.tice with regard to the cousin& of the Dutch troops; ,and also the state of defenee of the most important points in the different islands of this .departtnent.• . From every inf Or-: 'nation ,that I can l , arn, it appears certain, that . . . the views of •the enemy are exclusively confined to the town of Flushing, and — that all the act:o6ooDi .their having received reinforeetnents areunfoeaided. On the contrary, the enemy's force in that quarter' rather seems to be rechiced; for in the'cou'rse* last week upwards of 760 sick were'embarked . frotri the island of . Waldireii, liSt England. The ruala- dies which prevail among the enemy's troops are de cidedly to be ascribed to the cliMate and season and it is therefore but natural to conclude, - that they should equally atleet v3ur Majesty's troop=; though, on the c1u4.1- hand, 'the great attention of the medi cal department,, and every possible assistance in the 'Royal lio , p.balS, bate been am:tided with the 'haps piest efFt-eis : so that itt the course of la,t month noless than 1525 - men .were discharged trgni the 11 , .:spiralS, and re-joined their respective corps." ' Front a return of the Saute date, transmuted, by the M.ir'sl - 01 . , it appears, ihat,there skill tenaitined in the hi sphal six officers and 799 melt sick, and one °dicer and .e . ,95 . 0n the list of cony alescents. The latest accOutits Irons Vienna c,nuradial the report of the demise of the Empress of Austria, but add that she cominued dangerously ill, and had been eons eyed in a. titter from Tutis to Buda. The Arch duke Maximilian has beers for some time at Buda, seriously indisp '5O front ,a nervous fever. STUTGAIID, 527.---The. Prince ot Neufchatel and ) , Vogr nu, the' geueral Stmt of die army, were sibi in Vienna on 'the . 23d. The Prince was occupied in gik lug the .peceksary instructions, with regard to the new po'snions to oe s tal:en by the diffe rent carps of the army. The deparinre of the Vice roy was annotinced for the C4th. His Italian army marches a4ainst the Tyrolese. The elevethh corps, - which iv lorwed 'the army of Dalmaiia,'resurnes its tormrr peSilionS. Its 11.T.9. ,- quarterS will be at Laybach. _ _ _ The resignation of, the Archduke Charles still oc cupies the attention of the people of Vienna. , It is generally thought that 'his bad state of health, and his regret at the turn which atfairs tok, were the causes which led hint to resign his funttions ; and it is thought that no consideration whatever can induce him to iesurne them . . • _ • • AU6SBURG, OCT. CoMmission Eitra! ordinary established at Constance to inquire into the cause of the late disturbance's in that qnarter, haVe nearly brought their labours to a - It is ru moored that the result will' be fol.lnd extrethely im • portant. The Provisional Governont at .Saltzburg have adopted every. means in ti..wrr power to induce the, inhabitants . of the high lands of . that'Provinae to lay down their arms. , Their. efforts have been .mcist successful: In spite of the ,Projetts of certain Chiefs, Who have sold themselves to the eternal enemies of 'the Coneio:.!nt, the revolted aistrias have submitted to thelr lawful government. ,The pat ishes ot:Val de S;11, and those of Pintzgau, have ' sent Deputies, and are giving up their arms. In some of those diS tri6ts the enemy's agents have been apprelien&d.— The distria of Pitzgau has spontaneously delivered up its leaders. • By orders.from high authority, all the Austrian 'deserters and Tyrolese' found in those quarters are sent in custody to Saltzburg, and thence into Ba varia. Some.detachtnents of the Prince's-corpS have crossed the Seize, and penetrated to Krumthal, on the frontiers of the Tyrol. The rest. of the Bavarian • corps were to, follow, as soon as every thing was . quiet in the territoiy . of Saltzburg. MUNICH, Ocr. 24.LLFurther accounts have been received respetting the military operations in th e Tyrol. Lieutenant-General Deroi's division advanc-/ •ed on the'2lst train Wargel to Rattenberg. Thai of Baron Wre. , e reached:Kundel on the 20th, .anct next day marched for the bridge. of Zill. The in •serge•nts evacuated Ratt e ,nberg in the morning Of . the 21st, in consequence of the advance 'of the Ba variaes. The division under the Hereditary Prince is posted in the environs, of St. John, to support the measures, taken ter disarming the people, and taking husuiges in the vallies of Sitlzcack and Saab,' and also in tine bath IVicks of Icetzbuchell, Kutatein, and Ratt,phelg. P . . . . We are assured that the greatest misunderstand ing exists among the Tyrolese ; which, together with the advance of our troops, affords every reason 'to conclude that the insurrection is nearly at•an Cud. OCTOBER 26.—0 n the 24th, 140 . .T.yrolese iosur gents, and 30 Austrians, taken a few days before in • the vicinity of Lofer, were brought in here as pri soners. They . were yesterday sent .to _lngolstadt. Amorig .titcm is the son of the Tyrolese Chief, Speckbacker, who was killed in the last engage 7 ment. He is 'a lad of only 12 years of age, and of • a most interesting appearance. He has therefore been separated from his associates. 1 . Colonel'Count Von Obersdorf arrived early in the. morning of the 25th at Scharnitz. • After a cann(- ade of that pass for half an hour, ,he Stormed it with the regimeet of Jagers, supported by three - , companies of the 3d battalion of the Ist regiment. of toot. That important post was 'Carried in -less than half an hour. We lost'a sub-officer killed, and two officers, with several soldiers, .wounded. It is ret ported that the insurgents, on their retreat, set fire to the hoeses in Scharnitz. OCTOBER 27.—.-OH.the 25 t h Ahe Bavarians enter-, ed Inspruek, in wife of every resistance which the in,urgenti could make. We expp.d the of cial de- tails, ut this event. . ,LAYi3ACti; OCT, .18.--Several of the inhabitants of Gottscher and. tV.aetling lately committed,_some outrages upon the Italian soldiers quartered there.— Tte greater part . ..of the inhabitantshad no share in those . excesses, though the rioters maltreated ,thus who refused to join theitt;- and • even burned 'the. liciuses 61 some of them.' 'A Preelatimtion by tho Bi4hop of Laybach, a detachment of 'troops,' and. above.?ll, the happy tidings of peace, spec-oilysup- . ressed those. seeds of discord. The . inliabiwnis of C. ...,,;het are a sort of savages, who speak a dialect unintelligible to their neighboutg, and who are con sidered, by the existing Government as a very le fradory- set of people. Bvtli parishes have been dis armed. SECOND EDITION. SUN-OFFICE. HALF• ?MT THREE O'CLOCK. We stop the Press ,to state that a Ma7 . ziteur has been: received by a Gentleman .in the city, which slates that an aaion has taken place in the Mediter- Tanean, in which Six French Line-of-battle ships -were destroyed, and Four„ British. We have no doubt we shall shortly receive intelligence of a glo- rious vi&ory. It will be recolleBed, that the French stated that we lost ten sail of the line in the battle of Trafalgar!. T ILI L S U • N. 30LEM QUES DI ERE FALSUA AUX,: L' 0. 7 N D 0 MONDAY, NOVEMBLe 1, 4 , 1809. Just-before this Paper- was put' to press, we re ceived some French Papers, but they contain no in telligence of importance, except that they announce the death of : the Ewprtss of Allit We expressed bur - hopes on Saturday, that we . should soon receive intelligence of a very gratifying nature front the Mediterranean ; these have not been realized, but they have been very tnuch strengthened by a paragraph in the Rotterdain Paper of the gth inst. The paragraph' which is dated horn . isflifnes, the 28th'ult.'is as . "The day before yesterday,, between ,ten and eleven o'clock at night, 'there Was felt in this place a toncussion, followed by a very loud and sharp re port. This was beard twice, with an interval of about hall an hour between each report. Tbe•cause was at first thonglit_to be an earthquake ; but - as', the sound proceeded from the coast,(for itwas almost a dead calm, and the little wind there was, came" , :from the S. or the S. W.) and os.several French and English vessels bad been seen upon the coast, be tween Cette and Aiguernortes, some persons ascribed this phenomenon to the explosion of a great qtian (ity of gunpowder. This conjecture is this day ton,.. firmed by that two vessels which had gone ashore near Avesquieres, had been set oh fire and blown up at the time above mentioned. It is: reloaikable that the explosion should haVe been so dtstindly heard at NisnieS, considering that, it is ten leagues from the coast. We are in anxious expec tation of the particulars of this event." When- we couple this account with that recessed two Mercantile Houses in Rotterdam, heir Correspondents in Paris, announcing the c. ire of the French Convoy, with the articles in the Spanish Papers to the same effect and with the I..tter of Lord COLLINGWOOD, which , he expresses a. firm conviction 'that the Toulon fleet was about to put - to sea, we cannot but flatter ourselves that the French have sustained a signal defeat iu the Mediterranean. The Letter of Lord COLLINGWOOD, to which we allude, was addressed.to Admual PURVIS, off Cadiz and in it his . Lordship expressed his opinion that the French fleet would put to sea before that Letter reached its destination.' The Gazette of Saturday last contains the official account of the victories obtained by the Spanish j artnyy, under t he Command of the Duke DEL PARQUE, over the French, Atte substance of w'llich we COM naunicated to our readers on Friday. We are happy, however,' to find from subsequent accounts; that . the success of the Spaniards waseverfreater than we at first . beiieved. A corpS of 3000 of the Spanish light troops pursued the enemy a considsrable distance,' killed great "numbers of theni, and . took a considerable quaptity of baggage and am munition. From the ,Lisbon Diary of the 28th, we find the following postscript to" the Letter of the, Duke pm.; PARQUE " According to accounts which I have received since I wrote my letter, in which I related only. wha t came within my own view ; the:battle was more de- . cisive than L then had the opportunity of knowing. By diSpatches received this day, 'learn that the 3060 . light troops, •:who, supported by some corps of .Ca valry,-pursued.the enemy on Their retreat, have dope them considerable , Four leagues of the road are covered with their remains—with.dead Men and horses, ob erturned . waggons, muskets, cart ouche s and cartouch boxQs provisions and .acCeJutienients every where scattered auout. .Such was their haste to return to Salamanca, which place:they entered toiday at.titlt! o'Lloc1;:, Y. M.—The Grand Chaplin of the arrny'has superintended the interment of 1200 Frenchmen, - and the dead which have been found I between half a league from the head-gearters and are not inciuded in- this ntomuer. The loss of the enemy is nuw estimated at about 2000 men." " TILE DUKE DLE PARQUE." The rumours of BUONAPARTE'S indispoiition still ontinue to be circulated on the Continent, and the pains which the ArQniteur has taken to cdrivirice peopli of Flince that their Master is in ewe 4 •nplaltlt, have , hitherto by no means been successful. The circumstance of his remaining so long secluded, ,without condescending Co visit his good-city, of Paris, tends in some degree to strengthen the ru mours which were before generally circulated,- Nothing can afford a stronger - proof of the diffi culty which the, Opposition Writers find in-disco-, ' vexing any faire ground of attack upon Ministers, than , the coarse and personal abuse to which,they daily have recourse: This is a, species of hostility which requires . .no kneWledge, no ability; all chat is necessary is an abundint use of abusive terms, which may beapplied to all persons, at all times, ;and upon all ticcasions. Thi.is called free political discussion, and it is b the daily use of this species of eloquence that they expe4 to induce the people of this Coun tr) to. withdraw 'their confidence from the present Ministers. Lord 1‘461.:0a' AvE, 'and the- other Mem ht.-as of the Admiralty Board, p.irtieularly Mr. W4pD, aro hopoured -,with a pioluse share ^of this scurrility, not , becanse they. are incompetent to the discharge.; of. their duty —not hecanse they negleCt - _it--uot., because the naval service has suffered under- their Management —but because they are in office. Against Mr. WARD, indeed, there is another accusation . ; • his 'Christian 'name is . rvoratai', and by a frequent repetition of the abbrevi ation . , of that name', it is heped that the publie must be'convinced of his incapacity,! We recoiled the time, even when party hostility was greater' than it is now, but then the opposite 'parties seldom or • ever degraded themselves by fOitettin g the lan-'' guage and manners of Gentlemen ; the political writers then did net :think 'they should serve their own cause, or depress 'their adversaries, by the use of language which must excite.' disgust_ every where but in the vicinity of Billingsgate or. St. Giles's. We should' be glad if Our opponents.. ,would meet us fairly upon thesubjeetof the condu'4, of 'the Admiralty ; we should be glad if they would enter into a comparison between our naval successes obtained under the present, and those' obtained un .der the , late Administration: • It success alone be the criterion of merit, let them point out to us the Vielbries obtained.--let them give .us a list of the ships captured during the Naval Administration of Lord HOWIcK. and Mr. GRENVILLE. It is true sir Jo H N DucK.,,, , wl;rii 'did destroy 'a French scujdro,u in the West Indies, and Sir JOHN WARREN tools • • tie Marengo and the Belle Poule, while ord 1 - low- . Ick. was ; at the head of the Admiralty ; but hi 4„, Lordship can claim no merit from these suceessc because these Officers were ailing under theorderi • of the preceding Board of Admiralty. We are not .• now arraigning the Naval Administration of Lord HOWICK. or Mr.. GRENVILLE, but if, ,according t° the principles of their suppbrters, want of success is a proof of iticapacity,• they must have been thost capable First Lords of the Admiralty, for during the' 14 months that they fiileu that office, we believe , only a single slip of the line was taken horn the, enemy. '• Friday morning, his MAJUSTY and Princesses AU GUSTA and. SUPitIA, accompanied by Lord SomEz-, vILLE, Lady ELY, - GeneraiS SPE-Net:it crud CARTr , , witiGitT,-and . Colonel T'AYLOH and DESBROIV O rode: in Windsor .Great Park, and 'returned - at twelve' o'clock to the Palace. Yesterday his MAJESTY, and Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPRlAy'accintiparlied bytadies CRANLE . Y and WALDEGRAVIt, and General SPENCER, iode to 'St; George's C'hapel, and hear, Divine Service. •. We are 'happy ià announce, Princess AAiELIA iS a. little better since her return to Windsor. NATIONAL DEBT.---A❑ account shewing what has been redeemed of the National Deb', the Land-.: Tax, ,and Imperial Loan;. to . the Ist of November, - , 1809 : r c k Redeemed by 'Annual Million, &e. un " t.7.).9 1 , 1 73 Ditto on. account: of Lvitis - . . 5i.894, ~ 64 E . t Ditto by Land-Tax - - - ,?3,384,9 6 3 Ditto by. U. per cent. per Aim. on imperial' Loan 1,007,033 .I.' railSreircd .tor purchase of Life Annuities . - .. 919,903 '. Total . - 53,5 9 7,71;4 The sure to be expended in the CLISLuin6-quartef is 12,80,5771; 1 ts. 9d. The following statement of the losseswhieh the French have sustained in Catalania, is, perhaps, greatly exaggerated ; 'we ex!rad it from - The Lisbon .biary of the tl of oeouer Losses suffered by the yrencll artnies in . Spain, from the 2tsg, 0 . 1 . April, tgoS; to the Entt (A Sept. 1809 : Merl. In the two sieges oritieiona, 41 july and August, 18 o S i 0 ,0 040 lit the tour months siege of the sante place, in the pre sent year. ~„ -. , - . _ - _ 1 5,000 lii the clung of the fortress of R osas . . . 4, 000 • lathe battlo 'of .13ruch • - - - 3.5 00 ' In ttie battle oe Valls - - - 6,00 0 . Killed by , the Soiridteries of Anipuerda, at least 4,000 In the first tattle of .i . sriuntios.i.tet Ka • - - .. 3, 00 0 In the scoiiiii bai Lie - - - 2 ,5 °0 . When the cai . 4l.? oi Vicli was attacked in April of the - • _ prfSetlt year - - - .. 2 t ooo. Killed by the Soznatenes betore lidrcelona . 5 ,0c6 SLCL anti wounded in the titopitals - i i,coe, . 1 ..i . • ' - • TotAl 70,00 0 We understand ihat'PrtuLe STAHREMBERG has re' ceived ordeis Iroin 1. is Government to 6ieali °trail for'. ther cominunication wi►h this country ) in compliance with the pith article of the Treaty tJi Vienna, at" to retort, to Austria. 'this stipuidiiuo or the Treaty, when Aut.tria no longer had the means ol . Cothiherco t intercourse whit us,• shews the hostility and jeaiou . y J.BuoNAratcrE• entertains towards us, at •lii" s a me t Attests, the pliant subserviePcY of the fallen FRANCIS;